salli4102
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Looking for a cranberry wine recipe suitable for a beginner. (Me.) Thanks!
2lbs confectioners sugar I had just to use up
Well something went wrong and the batch never got started. Pitched the whole thing, starting over. No frozen berries this time just frozen juice concintrate. I made sure and read the label to make sure no preservatives. Using 8 11.5 oz frozen juice concentrate ~2gal filtered water. 1 apple sanitized and pealed cored and chopped.
Yeast lavlin EC-1118. I added the apple pieces as yeast nutrient. Most of my beers and wines are all natural ie I usually do not even use store bought yeasts, nutrients ect. but because I am kind of impatient to taste this stuff I cheated. Full volume ~3gal O.G. 1.125.
Yooper said:Don't use the apple. You don't need it, and it may ruin the wine. Raw fruit is tricky to use unless you are using sulfites and/or have experience with it.
Rambunctious said:I have made meads and cysers before. So I do understand the befits of patients. I will keep you all posted but this may take a while.
Well something went wrong and the batch never got started. Pitched the whole thing, starting over. No frozen berries this time just frozen juice concintrate. I made sure and read the label to make sure no preservatives. Using 8 11.5 oz frozen juice concentrate ~2gal filtered water. 1 apple sanitized and pealed cored and chopped.
Yeast lavlin EC-1118. I added the apple pieces as yeast nutrient. Most of my beers and wines are all natural ie I usually do not even use store bought yeasts, nutrients ect. but because I am kind of impatient to taste this stuff I cheated. Full volume ~3gal O.G. 1.125.
HELP!!! Ferment stuck? Checked and sampled today S.G. 1.070 it has cleared and yeast cake on the bottom is quite thick. Air lock activity 1 bubble every 2-3 min started this batch 11/24/13
Note: ferment temp only 68deg f days, 64deg f nights . It is kind of cold here in Wisconsin.
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I do agree cran wine is delicious, but It seems like alot if people have trouble with stalled or slow ferments with their cranberry wine. This was not my experience AT ALL with mine.
This was my first wine besides joes meads and skeeter pee, so I'd call it suitable for beginner. Here's recipe
All juices are 100% juice, bought at Walmart
6 cups of sugar dissolved in 1/3 gallon of hot water
4 x 101 oz Ocean Spray Cranberry juice
3 x half gallon Ocean Spray Cranberry Pomegranate Juice
3 lbs frozen Cranberries
1.5 lbs frozen mixed berries
3 tsp Yeast Nutrient
1 packet Lalvin EC1118 dry yeast
Backsweetening
1 can cran-apple juice concentrate
1 can cranberry juice concentrate
Thaw frozen cranberries and mixed berries, dump into clean 6.5 gallon fermenter.
Dissolve sugar in water to make invert sugar, dump over berries.
Dump in cranberry and cran-Pom juices into fermenter.
Add yeast nutrient And stir it up good.
When it gets under 80, take a hydrometer reading and stir in yeast.
Securely attach fermenter lid, and affix a blowoff tube in gromit (a length of tubing and one of the empty cranpom containers half-full of sani-water works). You will need it!!!
Periodically check gravity.
When SG reaches 1.020, skim the floating layer of fruit off the top and discard, then siphon into a clean fermenter.
Let the wine ferment dry (below 1.000) and rack into a clean fermenter. Add 1tsp kmeta and 3 tsp Sorbate to stabilize.
Let the wine clear, then transfer to a clean fermenter and backsweeten with the cranberry and cranapple concentrate to taste. Depending on how sweet you want it, you may want a second can of cranapple in there.
At this point you can let the wine sit an age as long as you can stand. I bottled mine after a week to free up space for next batch and it was fine
SWMBO and I both liked this wine right away, I'm sure it will improve with age.
My SG was 1.066 and I ended up w an 8.9% ABV, but I'd add more sugar if I was making this recipe again. I will also use a bag for the fruit next time, but you'll need a big one. With all the loose fruits, I was worried about haze and cloudiness, but this wine was crystal clear but the time it fermented dry, somehow.
It fermented explosively and fast. 11 days from pitching to dry, so it was a very quick batch.
Taste reminds me of a semi-dry red wine, but with that cran bite. The strange part is that tasting this and the cran juice side by side, the bite is smoothed out a bit in the wine. Very tasty on bottling day, will def make again with minor modifications
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I do agree cran wine is delicious, but It seems like alot if people have trouble with stalled or slow ferments with their cranberry wine. This was not my experience AT ALL with mine.
This was my first wine besides joes meads and skeeter pee, so I'd call it suitable for beginner. Here's recipe
All juices are 100% juice, bought at Walmart
6 cups of sugar dissolved in 1/3 gallon of hot water
4 x 101 oz Ocean Spray Cranberry juice
3 x half gallon Ocean Spray Cranberry Pomegranate Juice
3 lbs frozen Cranberries
1.5 lbs frozen mixed berries
3 tsp Yeast Nutrient
1 packet Lalvin EC1118 dry yeast
Backsweetening
1 can cran-apple juice concentrate
1 can cranberry juice concentrate
Thaw frozen cranberries and mixed berries, dump into clean 6.5 gallon fermenter.
Dissolve sugar in water to make invert sugar, dump over berries.
Dump in cranberry and cran-Pom juices into fermenter.
Add yeast nutrient And stir it up good.
When it gets under 80, take a hydrometer reading and stir in yeast.
Securely attach fermenter lid, and affix a blowoff tube in gromit (a length of tubing and one of the empty cranpom containers half-full of sani-water works). You will need it!!!
Periodically check gravity.
When SG reaches 1.020, skim the floating layer of fruit off the top and discard, then siphon into a clean fermenter.
Let the wine ferment dry (below 1.000) and rack into a clean fermenter. Add 1tsp kmeta and 3 tsp Sorbate to stabilize.
Let the wine clear, then transfer to a clean fermenter and backsweeten with the cranberry and cranapple concentrate to taste. Depending on how sweet you want it, you may want a second can of cranapple in there.
At this point you can let the wine sit an age as long as you can stand. I bottled mine after a week to free up space for next batch and it was fine
SWMBO and I both liked this wine right away, I'm sure it will improve with age.
My SG was 1.066 and I ended up w an 8.9% ABV, but I'd add more sugar if I was making this recipe again. I will also use a bag for the fruit next time, but you'll need a big one. With all the loose fruits, I was worried about haze and cloudiness, but this wine was crystal clear but the time it fermented dry, somehow.
It fermented explosively and fast. 11 days from pitching to dry, so it was a very quick batch.
Taste reminds me of a semi-dry red wine, but with that cran bite. The strange part is that tasting this and the cran juice side by side, the bite is smoothed out a bit in the wine. Very tasty on bottling day, will def make again with minor modifications
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